The Water Body Assessment Guidance (WBAG) describes DEQ's methods for evaluating data and determining beneficial use support of Idaho water bodies. Assessing a water body involves analyzing and integrating multiple types of data to determine the degree of beneficial use support and biological integrity of the water body and compile descriptive information about the water body. The current WBAG, published in 2002, is referred to as “WBAG II,” as it replaced the original WBAG published in 1996.
DEQ recognizes three categories of beneficial use support status: fully supporting, not fully supporting, and not assessed. “Fully supporting” means that a water body is in compliance with water quality standards and criteria and supports all designated and existing beneficial uses. “Not fully supporting” refers to a water body that is not in compliance with all water quality standards or criteria or is not supporting all beneficial uses. The “not assessed” category describes water bodies that have either not been monitored by DEQ at all or have been monitored to some extent, but are missing critical information needed to complete an assessment.

Dataset credit:

USGS, NHD, IDDEQ, Research Triangle Institute (RTI)

Language of dataset: en

Point Of Contact

Contact information for the individual or organization that is knowledgeable about the data.

Person: Michael Edmonson

Organization: Idaho DEQ

Position: 305(b) 303(d) Program Coordinator

Phone: 208 373 - 0502

Email: michael.edmonson@deq.idaho.gov

Hours of service: 8:00 - 5:00 MT

Address type: mailing and physical address

Address:

1410 N Hilton

City: Boise

State or Province: ID

Postal code: 83706

Data Type

How the data are represented, formatted and maintained by the data producing organization.

Description of spatial objects in the data using the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) terminology.

Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) terms

lake305b98_id_ideq

ESRI feature type: Simple

Geometry type: Polygon

Topology: FALSE

Feature count: 968

Spatial index: TRUE

Linear referencing: FALSE

SDTS Feature Description

Description of point and vector spatial objects in the data using the Spatial Data Transfer Standards (SDTS) terminology.

Spatial data transfer standard (SDTS) terms

lake305b98_id_ideq

Type: G-polygon

Count: 968

Data Quality and Accuracy Information

General

Information about the fidelity of relationships, data quality and accuracy tests, omissions, selection criteria, generalization, and definitions used to derive the data.

Logical consistency report:

Unknown

Completeness report:

The completeness of this dataset has been unverified by DEQ at this time.

Attribute Accuracy

Accuracy of the identification of data entities, features and assignment of attribute values.

Attribute accuracy report:

Unknown at this time

Positional Accuracy

Accuracy of the positional aspects of the data.

Horizontal accuracy report:

1: 100,000 +- 167 ft USGS mapping Standards

Data Source and Process Information

Data Sources

Information about the source data used to construct or derive the data.

Data source information

NHD

Map scale denominator: 1:100,000 NHD Lakes, Waterbodies

Media: NHD 1:100,000 for Idaho

Source contribution:

Research Triangle Institude, USGS, EPA

Date: 2000830

Currentness reference:

20000830

Process Steps

Information about events, parameters, tolerances and techniques applied to construct or derive the data.

Process step information

Process Step 1

Process description:

Waterbodies with designated uses were linear referenced against 100K NHD and attributed with
DEQ's Waterbody ID linking to Beneficial Uses.
Completeness or Accuracy has not been evaluated by DEQ on this dataset.

Description of the data known by the party from whom the data may be obtained, liability of party distributing data, and technical capabilities required to use the data.

Resource description:

Downloadable Data

Distribution liability:

Restriction of Liability: Neither the State of Idaho nor the Department of Environmental Quality, nor any of their employees make any warranty, express or implied, or assume and legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information or data provided. Metadata is provided for all data sets, and no data should be used without first reading and understanding its limitations. The data could include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. The Department of Environmental Quality may update, modify, or revise the data used at any time, without notice.

Distribution Point of Contact

Contact information for the individual or organization distributing the data.

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The Biological Data Profile broadens the application of the CSDGM so that it is more easily applied to biological data that are not explicitly geographic (laboratory results, field notes, specimen collections, research reports) but can be associated with a geographic location. Includes taxonomical vocabulary. The Shoreline Data Profile addresses variability in the definition and mapping of shorelines by providing a standardized set of terms and data elements required to support metadata for shoreline and coastal data sets. The FGDC Plus Stylesheet includes the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set. It supports W3C DOM compatible browsers such as IE7, IE6, Netscape 7, and Mozilla Firefox. It is in the public domain and may be freely used, modified, and redistributed. It is provided "AS-IS" without warranty or technical support.

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